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How can you use “listener” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
And George Mitchell, profiled in Milan's Corriere della Sera, was described as "a great listener," who, "first as a federal judge, and then as a senator, has spent his career trying to understand the point of view of his adversaries."
Though this caller has not called before, he is not a new listener.
Clichés are the background noise of speech; attention spans being as brief as they are and the ability to sustain a prolonged period of concentration differing considerably among individuals (even if one assumes that the subject under discussion is of some interest to the listener), the insertion in speech of clichés acts to give the overworked cells a rest, however momentary, from overdosing on information.
Indeed, the writer quoted in the 1984 citation [ Listener 20 Sept. 23/1] regarded it, in comparison with grockle , as less difficult and more vivid because its true meaning is ant.
When the man in the street or his female counterpart says all-mond ( almond ), beero ( bureau ), callm ( calm ), carmel ( caramel ), cooten ( couldn't ), deffly ( definitely ), ditten ( didn't ), ek cetera ( et cetera ), gore-may ( gourmet ), prolly ( probably ), putt-ing ( putting ), tair-iss ( terrorist ), tore-iss ( tourist ), or commits other and worse sins against good English and grammar, the listener realizes that the vernacular—a dialect, Low English—is being spoken and prolly thinks no more about it.
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